President Joe Biden is a pernicious fantasist whose fabrications are legendary.
Once considered a serious, thoughtful leader by the public, that image died quickly when Biden was caught plagiarizing from British Labor Party leader, Neil Kinnock, while campaigning for president in 1988.
Biden was prone to wild exaggerations throughout his long career in government.
He recently claimed he was of Puerto Rican descent, for example.
The guy cannot just accept reality as it is.
He doesn’t seem satisfied that he’s the president and, on some level, doesn’t have to exaggerate anymore the way he did as just another senator—or even as President Barack Obama’s vice-president.
Biden cannot himself, though.
It shows that he’s an inveterate liar. Another case-in-point is the report (from CNN of all places) that President Biden told an intricate story about how a conductor on Amtrak took a degree of playful umbrage with Biden when he was vice-president.
Lies, Dirty Lies by Joe Biden
A headline had read that Biden had traveled over one million miles on Air Force One as vice-president.
The conductor, who had known Biden for years (when Biden was a senator he made a point of traveling back-and-forth from his home in Delaware to Washington, D.C. on Amtrak), reminded Biden that he’d traveled far more miles on Amtrak than he had Air Force One.
The only issue with the detailed story that Biden told audiences recently is that there’s no way it could have happened.
As CNN reports, Biden did not reach the one-million-mile mark on Air Force One until 2015.
The conductor in question had died the year before, in 2014. The family of the conductor has confirmed that he and Biden were close. In fact, Biden apparently hosted the conductor’s retirement party at his Senate office…in 1993.
But Biden has persisted in sharing this convoluted, complex, and entirely false story.
The White House claims that the forty-sixth president is simply misremembering the conversation in question.
In fact, according to the White House, Biden did have such a conversation, but it was with a different Amtrak conductor.
Then there is the reason for why Biden was riding the Amtrak to Delaware when he was vice-president: Biden claims he was going to visit his sick mother.
The president appears to have gotten confused on the timeline.
After all, Biden could not have possibly visited his sickly mother around the time he reached the one-million-mile mark on Air Force One seeing as his mother had passed away five years prior to his Amtrak trip in 2015.
There were other inconsistencies in Biden’s tale.
At another point recently, Biden claimed that he was born in the same hospital as his grandfather. This is wrong. His maternal grandfather did die at the same hospital where Joe Biden was born, but that wasn’t until 1957—when Joe Biden would have been 14 years old.
Further, Biden’s other grandfather was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Not exactly accurate. To compound problems for Biden, he’s made this particular claim since 2021 and multiple fact checkers have corrected him in public.
Yet, Biden keeps repeating the inaccurate story to audience, two years after he was first face-checked.
What Gives?
Joe Biden has made so many misstatements in the last few years alone that you could fill a small book with all the inaccuracies. In many cases, the forty-sixth president repeats the falsehoods even after being proven wrong.
Perhaps he does this because he’s an old school politician who just can’t pass up the chance to spin what he thinks is a good yarn that’ll endear him to gullible audiences of voters.
Many of the tales he tells sound contrived; like they were concocted by Biden to appeal to voters looking to elect a guy who is just like the rest of us.
At the same time, though, given Biden’s advanced age, maybe he’s not skillfully manipulating audiences.
Perhaps the president is just getting confused and becoming forgetful due to the fact that he’s an octogenarian and has some sort of dimentia. The sycophantic, hyper-partisan media is going to cover for Biden, no matter what.
While Biden has a history of lying and exaggerating for public consumption, he’s old nowadays.
His stories, notably the one about the conductor, seem more like muddled memories of an actual event rather than straight up fabrications.
A Most Disturbing Option
As the 2024 Presidential Election grounds on, with the Democratic Party refusing to even look to other possible candidates, these public incidents need to be better understood.
Are they just more Biden lies? Or is the man who supposedly controls our nuclear codes completely gone mentally?
Both possibilities are troubling.
A 19FortyFive Senior Editor, Brandon J. Weichert is a former Congressional staffer and geopolitical analyst who is a contributor at The Washington Times, as well as at American Greatness and the Asia Times. He is the author of Winning Space: How America Remains a Superpower (Republic Book Publishers), Biohacked: China’s Race to Control Life (Encounter Books), and The Shadow War: Iran’s Quest for Supremacy (July 23). Weichert can be followed via Twitter @WeTheBrandon.
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